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January 21, 2014

Bowers Mansion, Washoe Valley, Nevada

From wikipedia: "The Bowers Mansion, located between Reno and Carson City,
Nevada, was built in 1863 by Lemuel "Sandy" Bowers and his wife, Eilley Orrum Bowers,
and is a prime example of the homes built in Nevada by the new millionaires of the
Comstock Lode mining boom.

The mansion was the fulfillment of Eilley's dreams of prestige and respectability.
The mansion, designed by J. Neely Johnson, a builder and ex-governor of California,
combined Georgian Revival and Italianate architectural styles. It was modeled after a
design conceived by Eilley based on her recollection of elegant buildings in her native
Scotland. Indeed, the Bowers employed stonecutters from Scotland for the construction
of their new home, which eventually cost $300,000 to build, an exorbitant sum in the 1860s."

Oh, and I fooled around in post processing to make it a little spooky. :)

Canon EOS 70D ,Canon EF 35mm f/2
1/640s f/2.8 at 35.0mm iso200 full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
Dave Beedon24-Jan-2014 04:40
It looks like a collection of porches with a few rooms tacked on.
coaster21-Jan-2014 22:20
It does look spooky; nice work.
Bill Miller21-Jan-2014 19:31
That is a very solid looking building, and not at all what I think of as Nevada architecture.
bill friedlander21-Jan-2014 18:48
Looks out of a Hitchcock film. Surprising what you can get by fooling around. V
laine21-Jan-2014 11:45
Your fooling around has worked...it looks very scary. Good work obtaining this moody style
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